Animatic Draft 1

With the Animatic making progress, we needed to test and experiment with some sounds to see which worked best....here's the scene where Felix....sees and hears the true nature of war.

Animatic coming soon! 

As soon as we saw this design, it was unanimous....the man looks like the bear and the bear looks like the man!!!! 

During the duration of our pre-production we've worked on Environment and Character, for obvious reasons this was a very vital stage in the creation of the short animation. We seem to have decided on a final design for the main character of our story and here's how we reached that point...

We now have a name......Felix.

In the midst of everything these two thumbnails were abandoned, though we've passed this stage and these weren't what we were looking for, I thought it'd be nice to not leave any work behind as we move along

For the first draft version of the animatic, Sam, Kinbi and I have split our original storyboard into three parts, each of us are doing one third.

Below is photographs of a very simple miniature paper model of the german office, to act as a visual reference for where camera angles may be placed, to aid in creating our animatic.

Below is also our final floor plan design.

Final Floor Plan Design

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More thumbnails for German office.

Some initial thumbnail designs for the German Office 

Below is an influence map with images primarily of the New Reich Chancellery building in Berlin, for the design of our German Office.

During World War 2, Hitler rejected all but two forms of art; "Un-German degenerate art of the likes of Pablo Picasso and classical realistic art that represented all that was good about Nazi Germany and Germans." Art movements at the time such as Art Deco, and the Bauhaus were banned and shut down. 

Instead, Hitler wanted "visible representations of Nazi ideals", and employed architects like Albert Speer to design government buildings that would create a sense of awe, as well as appearing intimidating to others. 

The New Reich Chancellery in Berlin (office for German Chancellor) was designed by Speer with high columns and gigantic doors, with an eagle sculpture above the entrance in the Voss-strasse entrance, for "an awe-inspiring entrance to the seat of Nazi power."

Speer's designs typically incorporated symmetrical designs, round columns, sculptures arranged symmetrically, with the focus on line.

The eagle statue above the entrance to the New Reich Chancellery building is interesting as our animation is to feature an eagle within the story. 

Above is influences for the layout of the Office. There are mainly images of offices from magazines, looking for different angles to work from. The two bottom right images are Photographs of Hitler's Office in the Chancellery.